{"id":721929,"date":"2026-04-12T03:58:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T03:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/721929\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T03:58:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T03:58:16","slug":"roster-notes-colorado-rapids-vs-houston-dynamo-fc-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/721929\/","title":{"rendered":"Roster Notes | Colorado Rapids vs Houston Dynamo FC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n      Starting XI<\/p>\n<p>Zack Steffen (C), Rob Holding, Lucas Herrington, Kosi Thompson, Dante Sealy, Hamzat Ojediran, Paxten Aaronson, Josh Atencio, Wayne Frederick, Darren Yapi, Rafael Navarro<\/p>\n<p>\n      Substitutes<\/p>\n<p>Nico Hansen, Keegan Rosenberry, Alexis Manyoma, Alex Harris, Ian Murphy, Noah Cobb, Mamadou Billo Diop, Kimani Stewart-Baynes, Georgi Minoungou<\/p>\n<p>\n      Roster Notes<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Newly-acquired players Kosi Thompson and Georgi Minoungou make their first appearances on the gameday roster, with Thompson earning the start aganst Houston. Thompson was acquired in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.coloradorapids.com\/news\/colorado-rapids-acquire-defender-kosi-thompson-from-toronto-fc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">trade with Toronto FC<\/a> on March 26, and\u00a0Minoungou joined the Rapids on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coloradorapids.com\/news\/colorado-rapids-acquire-winger-georgi-minoungou-from-seattle-sounders-fc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">transfer from Seattle Sounders FC<\/a> on March 27.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>No. 10 Paxten Aaronson enters Saturday&#8217;s match on a hot streak&#8211;netting three goals in two matches, including his first career brace against Sporting Kansas City and his pinpoint free kick in Toronto last weekend.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Striker Rafael Navarro (31) is one goal away from surpassing Cole Bassett &amp; Henderson for sixth-most goals in club history (31).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Wayne Frederick&#8217;s start marks his fourth of 2026, continuing to elevate his single season career-high.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Defenders Jackson Travis and Miguel Navarro will not feature in Saturday&#8217;s match after collecting a red card each in the previous contest with Toronto.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n      Match Details<\/p>\n<p>Where: DICK&#8217;S Sporting Goods Park, Commerce City, Colorado\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When: Saturday, April 11 @ 7:30 p.m. MT<\/p>\n<p>\n      Tune In<\/p>\n<p>Listen: <a href=\"https:\/\/player.listenlive.co\/48751\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Altitude Sports Radio<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Social Media: @ColoradoRapids<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Starting XI Zack Steffen (C), Rob Holding, Lucas Herrington, Kosi Thompson, Dante Sealy, Hamzat Ojediran, Paxten Aaronson, Josh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":721930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5130],"tags":[121797,299451,4345,28470,358,3187],"class_list":["post-721929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-colorado-rapids","tag-colvshou-04-11-2026","tag-houston","tag-match-day","tag-texas","tag-tx"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116389734366832190","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}